06/19/2026
“Sometimes we just need a hammer. We don’t need a multi-tool.” 🔨
Chris Alexiuk of on a shift a lot of people are sleeping on: if a model only ever needs to do one thing, it doesn’t need to be good at ten others. Make it much better at the one thing that matters, or much smaller, which usually means cheaper and faster. ⚡
Generalists still matter. But like people, models specialize too.